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less Bay and the seizure of the child ought Ger
tainly to be taken back to be retired at ST. Au-
gustne.
But could not both brothers be considered
equally responsible for the long series of crimes
they had been able to commit with impuntyl
Certainly! But out of respect to the law Cap
tain Howlck thought it best to put the following
question:
(Which Of you was guilty OF the massacre at
Kissimmees'
There no reply.
Evidently the Texars intended to say nothing
in reply to the questions put TO them
Zermah alone could tell which was which.
The brother who was Black Greek the I'D
of March could not be the author OF masa-
ere committed hundred miles off the day.
Zermah had a means of identifying the man
who carried her Off But was she not dead nowl
No. Supported by her husband she was seen
to come forward. In q voice that could hardly
be heard, she said:
1.-The man who carried me off is tattooed on
the left arm"
At these words a smile of disdain appeared on
the lips of the brothers. who folded up their
sleeves and showed on the left arm of each q
similar tattoo mark.
At :nis new impossibilitv of distinguishing
one from the other, Captain Howick thought it
was time to bring the scene to q close.
1.-The author of the massacre a. Kissimmee is
to be shot. Which OF you was it2'
II was. said both the brothers together.
That was enough. At the words the firing
party took aim.
There flash and report and hand
hand the Texars fell
That the end of these two men, whose ex-
traordnary resemblance had enabled them for
many years to commit crime with impunty.
The only human sentiment they could be credit
ed with was this savage friendship of brother to
brother which had been theirs till death.
CHAPTER XXI
CONCLUSION.
The civil war continued with varying fortune.
Some things had recently happened of which
James Burbank had not heard since his depart
from Candies Bay, and which he only
knew when he got back
During this time it seemed though the ad-
vantage rested with the confederates round
of Pitts burg Landing The Southern army had
Johnston as eeneralin. chief and under him
were Beauregard. Hardee, Braxton Bragg and
Bishop Polk, an old pupil at West Point and
these cleverly profited by the shortsigh tedness
of the Northerners. who, on the 9th of April,
surprised at Shiloh The result OF that
surprise the dispersal of Peabody's brigade
and the retreat of Sherman. The confederates,
however, paid cruelty for their success. the he
roc Johnston being killed he repulsed the
federal army.
Such was the first day of the battle of the 5th
of April. The day bur one after there was
other fight along the whole line and Sherman
retook Shiloh. In their TURF the confederates
had to retreat before the soldiers of Grant. The
struggle was asanguinarv one; out of eighty
thousand men engaged, twenty thousand were
wounded or killed
This the last news of the war that James
Burbank and his companions heard the morning
after their return to Castle House, On the 7th of
April
After the execution of the Texars they had
accompanied Captain Howick and his prisoners
to the coast. At Cape Malabar one of the vessels
of the flotilla had been stationed to cruise off
the coast and in her they were taken to Saint
Augustine Thence a gunboat took them from
PIcolata to Candles Bay.
And so all got back to Castle House-even
Zermah, who had recovered from her wounds.
Carried to the federal vessel by Mars and his
cor panions she had had every attention. and in
her happiness at having saved little DIV, aud
cd hor m " mn hor hnxU
she die2
Mrs Burbank. with her child near her. grad
uaily recovered her health. With her had
she not her husband, her son. Alice (soou to
become her daughter), Zermah and Marsl And
she had nothing to fear henceforth from the
or rather. two scounnrels, whose
chief accomplices were in federal hands.
But a rumor was abroad which, it will be re-
membered, was mentioned by the brothers at
their interview at Carneral island. It said
that the Northerners were to abandon Jackson
Vile; that Dupont. con 6ning himself to the
blockade of the coast, was to withdraw the gun
boats that assured the safety of the st. Johns
This plan would evidently jeopardize the safety
Of the planters who held anti-slavery notions,
and especially James Burbank
The rumor was well founded. On the 9Th of
April the day after that which tho family
to Castle House. the Federals began
.he evacuation of Jacksonville. A few of the
who were favorable to the Unionst
cause. thought it better to leave the town, some
or Port Royal. others for Now York.
James Burbank did not think it necessary to
ollow their example. The negroes had returned
% the plantation. not slaves, but as free men.
and their presence would assure the safety of |
Candies Bay. The war had entered on ia |
,orable phase for the North, and this allowed |
# Gilbert remaining on leave at Castle House |
o celebrate his marriage with Alice Stannard. /
The work on the plantation was re commenced. |
There was question of putting IN force |
against Mr.. Burbank the order eXpellng the |
reed slaves from Floridan territory. Texar and |
lis companions were no longer at hand to raise
ne populace and the gun-boats on the coast |
would promptly re-establish order at Jackson
lille.
The war dragged on for three more years, and
ven Florida was destined to receive few more
4 its coun effects. In the month of Septem-
er of this same year Dupont's hotia appeared
nd Jacksonville occupied for the second
ime. Later it occupied by General
lev mour for a third time after q trifiing resist
nee.
On the LIST of January, 1863 proclamation by
President Lincoln abolished slavery in all the
states OF the Union. But the war did not end
III the 9th Of April, 1865 On that day, at APP
omattox Court house, General Lee surrendered
nth his whole army General Grant, under
apitulation which did honor to both parties.
The sanguinary struggle of North against
and seven hundred millions of dollars, and
illed more than half million of men, but slav-
~ was abolished throughout North America.
And by it assured the indivisbility of the
apublic of the United States, thanks to the eff
,rts of those Americans whose ancestors CEN
ary before had freed their country in the War
Independence
THE END.